Fergus Lamont
By: Robin Jenkins
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
‘Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowled, when in letters to the Scotsman and the Glasgo…
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1. My Name is Leon
By: Kit de Waal
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV and Curly Wurlys are i… read more
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- fiction
"When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy."-Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
2. The Silver Darlings
By: Neil M. Gunn
3.99
Format: 208 pages,
The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the herring fisheries… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
3. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- fiction
4. Pavane
By: Keith Roberts
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of e… read more
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- fiction
5. A Jest of God
By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rac… read more
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- fiction
6. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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- fiction
7. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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- fiction
8. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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- fiction
9. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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- fiction
10. Annals of the Parish: or The Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder
By: John Galt
3.97
Format: None pages,
Set in rural Scotland of two hundred years ago, Annals of the Parishis a quiet gem of a novel. The … read more
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11. An Instance of the Fingerpost
By: Iain Pears
5.00
Format: 224 pages,
An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more
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12. Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
By: Len Deighton
1.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once… read more
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13. Brat Farrar
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the ident… read more
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14. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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15. And the Land Lay Still
By: James Robertson
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
Michael Pendreich is curating an exhibition of photographs by his late, celebrated father Angus for… read more
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16. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
By: Richard Flanagan
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more
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17. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
18. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- fiction
19. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- fiction
20. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
21. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
22. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
23. Summerwater
By: Sarah Moss
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
24. Slade House
By: David Mitchell
3.81
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more
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- fiction
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"-David Mitchell, Slade House
25. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
26. The Stranding
By: Kate Sawyer
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more
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- fiction
27. Mr Wilder & Me
By: Jonathan Coe
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more
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- fiction
"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
28. The Tap Dancer
By: Andrew Barrow
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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29. Hear No Evil
By: Sarah Smith
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
30. Pilgrims
By: Matthew Kneale
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The year 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pil… read more
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31. Fergus Lamont
By: Robin Jenkins
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
‘Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowled, when in letters to the Scotsman and the Glasgo… read more
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